On 04-22-08, ROSS SAUER said to ED HULETT:


>> Then post the *ENTIRE* video.


> It was posted already, but you called it a lie.


RS>Bullshit.


> How do you get off posting highly edited hit piece videos and then trying
to > slam Mimi for posting videos of Obama that were only edited to show his


RS>lies? Because Mimi is using nothing but wingnut blogs, that simply make
RS>shit up.


The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public
men. Samuel Adams


PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE


No Obamanation Part 1: Barack who?
By Mark Alexander


(Part 1 of 3 on Barack Hussein Obama)


It is unlikely that Hillary Rodham Clinton can turn enough Demo super
delegates her way to defeat Barack Hussein Obama for the Democrat
presidential nomination.


Her prospects for a big win in the 22 April primary in Pennsylvania are
diminishing, and even if there were a Michigan revote and the Florida
delegates were seated, it would not put Clinton over the top.


Though Clinton has pledged to “fight to the convention,” having pulled out
all the stops she and hubby Bill could muster to sink Obama, the once seeming
inevitability of her nomination has faded to black, and she may drop her bid
by June.


So, that leaves us with Barack Hussein v. John McCain in the general election
match-up.


McCain is a well-known political commodity with a long-established record,
but who the heck is Barack Obama?


It’s hard to believe, given Obama’s exponential rate of poll climbing, that
18 months ago he was not a household brand.


Of course, for some, he was. Diehard Leftists became sycophantic Obamanites
after his 2004 Demo Convention keynote speech. They, and Obama’s primary
promoters, Jean-Francois Kerry and Teddy Kennedy, have been grooming him for
this campaign since his Senate election in 2004.


Obama’s selection as the Demos’ 2004 keynote ensured his successful bid for
the U.S. Senate, and a $1.9-million book deal to boot. The grooming exercise
paid off for his true believers, though Obama is not much more than a lapdog
for Kerry, who is, himself, just a lapdog for Kennedy.


This cadre of `useful idiots' comprised the sum total of those who took Obama
seriously when he announced his candidacy last February.


How arrogant, Clintonistas thought, that this freshman senator from Illinois,
whose credentials were little more than `community organizer' and state
senator (oh, and `African-American'), would dare challenge the former
co-president of the United States.


Asked about his qualifications to be president, Kerry said, “Because he’s
African-American. Because he’s a black man, who has come from a place of
oppression and repression through the years in our own country... President
Obama [would be] a symbol of empowerment [who has] the ability to help us
bridge the divide of religious extremism, to maybe even give power to
moderate Islam... an important lesson for America to show Egypt, Jordan,
Saudi Arabia, other places in the world where disenfranchised people don’t
get anything.


Of course, from Kerry’s `limo-liberal' perspective, I suppose that a black
guy who lives in a $2-million Georgian mansion on Chicago’s South Side (with
a little help from Tony Rezko) appears to have been `oppressed and repressed
through the years.'


Kerry’s cosmological assessment notwithstanding, it is time to ask, `Who is
Barack Hussein Obama?'


Well, like so many Leftists, his roots are shallow and broken.


`Barry,' as he was called when a youngster, was born in 1961 in Hawaii. His
mother, Stanley `Ann' Dunham (whose father wanted a boy and so named her
Stanley) was an anthropologist from Kansas, known to her friends as `the
original feminist.' According to Maxine Box, Dunham’s best friend, `She
touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she’d read about and could
argue.'


His father, Barack Obama, Sr. , was a Muslim from the Luo tribe in Kenya.


Barack’s parents met in a Russian language class (somehow fitting) while
students at the University of Hawaii.


When Obama was two, his parents separated and later divorced. His father had
two children by a first marriage to a woman in Kenya whom he had never
divorced, and after leaving Barack’s mother he returned to his former wife
and had two more children, accounting for four of the candidate’s
half-siblings.


Obama’s mother then married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian
national. Barack and his mother moved with Lolo to Jakarta, where he spent
four years in local schools. Soetoro and Dunham had a daughter, Maya
Soetoro-Ng, Barack’s fifth half-sibling. They would later divorce. Then Obama
moved back to Hawaii to reside with his maternal grandparents and attend the
exclusive Punahou School until his graduation in 1979.


After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles and studied for two years at
Occidental College, transferring to Columbia University and graduating with a
BA in political science in 1983. In 1985, he moved to Chicago to become a
`community organizer.'


In 1988, prior to entering Harvard Law School, Obama met another Chicago
lawyer, Michelle Robinson. They dated through law school and were married in
1992, a year after Obama’s graduation, by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the
now-infamous `black liberation' heaver of hate rhetoric under the banner of
`social justice.'


They have remained active in Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for 20
years, and their two daughters were baptized by Wright. (More on Obama’s
racist mentors in Part 2).


Michelle Obama attended elementary and high school in Chicago and then went
to Princeton to major in African-American studies. After completing her
senior thesis, `Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,' she went
on to Harvard Law School, where she received her J.D. in 1988.


Barack became an associate attorney with a law firm, and between 1993 and
2002 he represented mostly community organizers and discrimination claims. In
1996, he ran successfully for the Illinois State Senate and continued to work
summers for his law firm. In 2000, he made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S.
House, but in 2004, buoyed by his stardom at the Democrat Convention, he won
his Senate bid.


Since that time, Obama has continued to burnish his extreme-Leftist
credentials,
having recently been listed by the non-partisan National Journal as the
Senate’s most liberal member. Think about it: Obama’s voting record is to the
left of every other senator, even that of Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders.


All this may constitute Obama’s background but it is not who he is. To get at
the real question of `Barack who?' one has to look beyond his bio.


Barack Hussein Obama is an archetypal liberal case study. Obama, William
Jefferson Clinton, Albert Arnold Gore, John F. Kerry and, of course, Edward
`Chappaquiddick' Kennedy, all share a common ailment; what I have aptly
described in some detail as the Pathology of the Left.


Leftists are uniformly defined by their hypocrisy and dissociation from
reality.


They speak of unity, but they foment division, appealing to the worst in
human nature by separating Americans into dependent constituencies. They
support freedom of thought, unless those thoughts don’t comport with theirs.

They feign tolerance while practicing intolerance. They resist open
discussion and debate of their views, yet seek to silence dissenters. They
protest for natural order while advocating for homosexuality and abortion.

They assert their First Amendment rights, except, of course, when it comes to
religion, whence they impose the doctrines of secular atheism on everyone
else. They decry SUVs, except those that they own. They advocate mass transit
but commute on private jets. They believe trial lawyers save lives and
doctors kill people. They believe the solution to racism is to treat people
differently on the basis of the color of their skin rather than the content
of their character. They deride moral clarity because they can’t survive its
scrutiny.


Ad infinitum...


Why do most liberals believe what they believeand act the way they act?


Psychopathology dictates and frames worldview, and worldview manifests in
such things as political affiliation.


Leftists politicos tend to be chronic overachievers because they have
suffered significant loss; often the result of the disconnect with their
earthly fathers.


They subscribe to rigid doctrines and `nanny state' regimes to satiate their
persistent insecurity, the result of low self-esteem and arrested emotional
development associated, predominantly, with fatherless households or
critically dysfunctional families in which they were not adequately affirmed.


Obama manifests all of these characteristics, and clinically speaking, there
is a diagnosis. Leftists are pathological case studies of Narcissistic
Personality Disorder, as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders; the standard reference used for psychiatric evaluation.


Of course, there are many conservatives who were raised by a single parent or
in critically dysfunctional or impoverished homes. However, somewhere along
the way, they were lifted out of their misery by the grace of God—often in
the form of a significant mentor who modeled individual responsibility and
character. As a result, they have the courage to internalize their locus of
responsibility.


Leftists, on the other hand, externalize responsibility for problems and
solutions by holding others (read: conservatives) to blame for their ills,
and by bestowing upon the state the duty for arbitrating proper conduct—even
proper thought.


A footnote: It’s no coincidence that conservative political bases tend to be
suburban or rural, while liberal political bases tend to be urban. The
social, cultural and economic blight in many urban settings are Leftist
breeding grounds for legions of the disenfranchised, those who are largely
dependent on the state for all manner of their welfare, protection and
sustenance.


These legions identify with Barack Obama. That is the substance, the essence
of Obama.


To be sure, all good-hearted Americans should feel a degree of compassion for
Barack Obama, whose formative years were marked by complete familial
disintegration. But that is not a reason to elect him president.


(Next week;No Obamanation Part 2: Disciple of Hate)


Quote of the week


"A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think
they are as clever as he is." ....Karl Krauss, German writer and critic of
the Third Reich.


On cross-examination
"Democrats are worried that the Obama spell will break between the time of
his nomination and the time of the election, and deny them the White House.
My guess is that he can maintain the spell just past Inauguration Day. After
which will come the awakening. It will be rude." ....Charles Krauthammer


Open query
"Who is Barack Obama? The truth is that neither Sen. Obama’s supporters nor
opponents can answer that question. We know he is bright, eloquent and
charismatic. But if he were elected president of the United States, he would
be the least known man to be elected in modern American history, perhaps in
all of American history." ......Dennis Prager


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